in most situations I have found that if you want to rollover funds from say a 401K to a Roth IRA, you must first rollover into a traditional or rollover IRA then convert that into a Roth… Of course you may incur fees and other costs to do so.

My question is, could you get around those fees by (using TDAmeritrade’s $500 minimum as an example) Opening a Roth with $500 and then rolling over additional funds from an existing 401K into the Roth? Or would you still have to rollover into a traditional IRA?

Roth ira, roth ira rules,what is roth,retirement plan roth ira 2010,roth ira qualification,what does a roth ira do,ira for minors,simple roth ira calculator